Beach Theme[1]
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Links to Related
Handouts and Videos, and some Discussions |
Related Pictures |
General Related
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Teacher’s Overview |
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Technology |
Go to the following link: Go to find a track by author and click on that link. Next type in Jamee Childs to go to the Beach Theme. |
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Experiencing Sand and the Beach |
These are handouts that the students used early in this theme: The following is a video for students doing a Round Robin active listening exercise to learn what the students already know about beaches: In this video students are looking carefully at some grains of sand and are sorting sand from different beaches as to texture and color: |
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Researching Information |
This video captures the students being oriented to doing research and following the handouts below: Handouts to guide the children’s research: The students then break into three groups to research:
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PreWriting |
This is an example of one of the student’s prewriting exercise where he has created a Mind Map: |
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Writing about the Beach |
The following are written reports
by each of the three groups. |
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Planning and Preparing for the Mural |
The following is a rubric the children were given for evaluating their project: This video captures a worksession
while the children were preparing their Mural: Note at one point one of the
teachers took the children out to the wall where they were going to build the
Mural so they could visualize the size of the mural they were making. |
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The Mural |
Finally the children had the presentation of their (Note this was taped outdoors and there is some noise interference coming from children in the playground. However, if you listen carefully you can still get the essence of the children’s work.) |
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Reflection |
This form was used to help the children evaluate their participation in a cooperative learning environment: |
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